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Hypercasual games market is shrinking, still 3.7 billion downloads last 3 months

PreMortem.Games

A larger drop can be identified if we compare Q2 2023 to Q2 2022. As one might have expected, we can see several oldies on our list: Bridge Race , Going Balls , Race Master 3D – Car Racing and Car Games 3D: Car Racing. Comparing total downloads of Q2 2023 to Q1 2023, we see a decrease of about 5%.

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[Event Spotlight] How Mobile Game Developers Are Driving Player Engagement With Race Events

Game Refinery

This trend is now spinning out into race events – where players compete to see who can reach a designated objective first – resulting in a variety of new race event types emerging. These race events are mostly encountered in casual titles, although they work well for any games that function on level-based progression mechanics.

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2021 Predictions #5 Sports Games Race into a Billion Dollar Club

Deconstructor of Fun

Despite being the smallest category by revenue share on mobile, 2020 was a very good year for Sports & Racing as it breached the billion-dollar mark , with combined revenue of $1.2B Sports saw YoY growth of +29% ($880M) , while Racing registered +23% YoY ($331M). The sports category is divided into two genres: Sports and Racing.

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Even older hypercasual games break into the Top 10 in Q1 2023

PreMortem.Games

Hypercasual Q1 regional split Comparing the total downloads in Q1 2023 with those in Q4 2022, we see a decrease of 5%. However, an even more significant downtrend can be noticed when comparing Q1 2022 to Q1 2023. The market declined from 4 billion installs in the previous quarter to 3.8 billion installs in Q1 2023.

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2022 Predictions #3 Sports Games Get Beaten from a Pillar to a Post

Deconstructor of Fun

Sports & Racing Games in 2021. In our Taxonomy found on Sensor Tower, we break down Sports into two genres: Sports and Racing. The racing genre is further broken down into Racing Simulators, Kart Racing, Arcade Racing, and Drag Racing. Kart Racing declined due to some reasons.

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How Pride Was Celebrated on Mobile in 2022

Game Refinery

— Zooba (@ZooBattleArena) June 20, 2022. The company has been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign as one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+ equality in 2022. Last year, the company distributed an exclusive rainbow-colored car to players in CSR2 Racing to commemorate the event. pic.twitter.com/5d91viGQQ2.

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Announcing the Godot 2022 showreels!

Mircosoft Game Dev

Music track: Race The Sun - Scott Buckley (CC-BY 4.0). There were way too many good projects, and we couldn’t include them all to keep the videos at a reasonable length and pace – but don’t be discouraged if your entry didn’t make it, we’ll have more opportunities to showcase great projects, including next year’s showreels. Edited by Emi.

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